Title :
An address management mechanism for blocking external communications in IPv6 networks
Author :
Sora Son ; Sangwook Bae ; Shimin Sun ; Sunyoung Han
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Konkuk Univ., Seoul, South Korea
Abstract :
IPv6 has been developed to deal with the increase in number of hosts in the Internet. IPv6 address can be assigned to any network devices. IPv6 provides new function called SLAAC (Stateless Address Auto Configuration). SLAAC is a significant feature for host itself generating and configuring own addresses to enable communication. But this feature has drawbacks in term of security and management of networks. In this paper, we propose a blocking mechanism for malicious hosts using the feature of RA message in ICMPv6 (Internet Control Message Protocol version 6). It was experimented using Emulab testbed environment. And the result show that it can block malicious hosts successfully.
Keywords :
IP networks; computer network management; computer network security; protocols; IPv6 networks; Internet control message protocol version 6; SLAAC; address management mechanism; blocking external communications; blocking mechanism; malicious hosts; network devices; network security; stateless address auto configuration; Computer science; Educational institutions; IP networks; Internet; Routing protocols; Unicast; IPv6; emulab testbed; external communication management; host blocking system; security;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI-CON), 2014 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nakhon Ratchasima
DOI :
10.1109/ECTICon.2014.6839902